Posted on 08/26/2022 9:37:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A crude drawing spray-painted onto a lamppost or scribbled inside a school textbook may cause an eye roll, but wouldn't be too surprising.
However archaeologists were taken aback when they discovered an 18-inch (half-metre) phallic carving in an ancient Roman settlement known as El Higuerón.
Excavations by the Museo Histórico Local de Nueva Carteya uncovered the bas-relief penis, which was unveiled on the museum's social media channels last Friday.
El Higuerón, a municipality of Nueva Carteya in Spain, was occupied by Iberians in the 4th century BC until the Roman conquest of the region around 206 BC.
They erected a tower-shaped building on its ruins which is currently being uncovered, and carved the phallus on one of its cornerstones.
Romans believed the symbol was the embodiment of masculine power and brought about protection and good fortune, so depictions have been found throughout Roman culture.
Andrés Roldán, a researcher at the University of Extremadura and director of the museum, described it as 'unusually large'.
He told El País: 'It was common to put them on the facades of houses, and soldiers carried small phallic amulets as symbols of virility.
'We are currently researching whether one of similar dimensions has been previously found.'
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Romans believed the phallus was the embodiment of masculine power and brought about protection and good fortune, so depictions have been found throughout Roman culture
It's strange one of these wasn't found at the site of Troy, when ya think about it.
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Dick Cheney
Bigus Dickus?
They didn’t manufacture Porsches back in those days.
Ping.
5.56mm
THIS way to the Roman Baths.
In before the John Holmes posts...
He’s married, you know......................😉
I clicked on this thread to see if there were any wisecracks .....
Well, I’ve never been to Spain...................
back then, graffitti artists had a much more difficult time defacing public property with pubic properties. spray can be damned, this pecker’s etched in stone.
How porn was created in the 4th Century BC
How porn was created in the 4th Century BC
pedoJoe and Hunter’s great, great, great, great granddaddy.
Being a dick goes back for generations....LOL..../s
There is literally a penis museum in Iceland.
The Icelandic Phallological Museum, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
It contains a collection of
over 215 penies and penile parts from land and mammals in Iceland. Whales, walruses, seals, homo sapiens and more.
Audio Tours are offered.
5.56mm? Dang.
The Big Guy.
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